xvi, 800 pages : 23 cm

The final volume in Churchill's History of the War, beginning with D-Day 1944. It includes an appraisal of F.D.R. descriptions of Yalta and the Potsdam Conference and the British elections of 1945

Includes index

D-Day -- Normandy to Paris -- The pilotless bombardment -- Attack on the south of France? -- Balkan convulsions: the Russian victories -- Italy and the Riviera landing -- Rome: the Greek problem -- Alexander's summer offensive -- The martyrdom of Warsaw -- The second Quebec Conference -- Advance in Burma -- The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- The liberation of western Europe -- Prelude to a Moscow visit -- October in Moscow -- Paris -- Counter-stroke in the Ardennes -- British intervention in Greece -- Christmas at Athens -- Preparations for a new conference -- Yalta: plans for world peace -- Russia and Poland: the Soviet promise -- Yalta: finale -- Crossing the Rhine -- The Polish dispute -- Soviet suspicions -- Western strategic divergences -- The climax: Roosevelt's death -- Growing friction with Russia -- The final advance -- Alexander's victory in Italy -- The German surrender -- An uneasy interlude -- The chasm opens -- The end of the coalition -- A fateful decision -- The defeat of Japan -- Potsdam: the atomic bomb -- Potsdam: the polish frontiers -- The end of my account

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